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Hi Guys,
I've come to the conclusion, I am unable to afford to give the old CX a professional paint job, and I'd like to get some paint on it before it gets another soaking through winter.
I doubt I'll get it done by winter. This thread may drag out until next summer given my spare time. And I'll have to drive one of those "half painted" cars around.
This appears to be a common question around here "How do I give my old Renault/Poogoe/Citroen a cheap paintjob ". The cars very straight and rust free, how much efforts involved
This is the stage I'm at, the car is very straight for it's age, and quite rust free. Yet the paint is absolutely buggered (surprisingly it looks quite good in photo's from a distance).
I'll post costs and time taken here as I proceed so you guys can get an idea of the time and $$$ involved for a "Quick but half decent" paint job.
First problem is the car is two pack... This is the stuff where you mix a hardener and reducer to the paint ... it then sets like concrette and is a brilliant paint ... However is extremelly toxic and I refuse to spray it. I will instead get the colour mixed as acrylic (matching the back of the fuel filler flap if they can't mix by paint code).
Quick and simple right, that's what we all think. Well I've just taken some piccies of the car.
To give you an idea of what the starting point is these are some piccies I took last year (after giving it it's annual wash :roflmao: :roflmao: ).
Later today I'll post photo's of the work that I need to do ... Quick paint jobs would you believe aren't "real quick" :disappr: I'm guestimating $500bux for the paintjob, we'll see how close I get.
seeya,
Shane L.
I've come to the conclusion, I am unable to afford to give the old CX a professional paint job, and I'd like to get some paint on it before it gets another soaking through winter.
I doubt I'll get it done by winter. This thread may drag out until next summer given my spare time. And I'll have to drive one of those "half painted" cars around.
This appears to be a common question around here "How do I give my old Renault/Poogoe/Citroen a cheap paintjob ". The cars very straight and rust free, how much efforts involved
This is the stage I'm at, the car is very straight for it's age, and quite rust free. Yet the paint is absolutely buggered (surprisingly it looks quite good in photo's from a distance).
I'll post costs and time taken here as I proceed so you guys can get an idea of the time and $$$ involved for a "Quick but half decent" paint job.
First problem is the car is two pack... This is the stuff where you mix a hardener and reducer to the paint ... it then sets like concrette and is a brilliant paint ... However is extremelly toxic and I refuse to spray it. I will instead get the colour mixed as acrylic (matching the back of the fuel filler flap if they can't mix by paint code).
Quick and simple right, that's what we all think. Well I've just taken some piccies of the car.
To give you an idea of what the starting point is these are some piccies I took last year (after giving it it's annual wash :roflmao: :roflmao: ).
Later today I'll post photo's of the work that I need to do ... Quick paint jobs would you believe aren't "real quick" :disappr: I'm guestimating $500bux for the paintjob, we'll see how close I get.
seeya,
Shane L.
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